Chapter 3 — The Old Testament Book of Zechariah

Prophetic Vision: Joshua the High Priest.

¹ Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, while the adversary() stood at his right side to accuse him.()

² And the angel of the LORD said to the adversary, “May the LORD rebuke you, O adversary; may the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you!() Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?”()

³ () Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clad in filthy garments.

⁴ Then the angel said to those standing before him, “Remove his filthy garments.”() And to him he said, “Look, I have taken your guilt from you,() and I am clothing you in stately robes.”

⁵ Then he said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” And they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with the garments while the angel of the LORD was standing by.

⁶ Then the angel of the LORD charged Joshua:

⁷ “Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you walk in my ways and carry out my charge, you will administer my house and watch over my courts;() and I will give you access to those standing here.”

Supplementary Oracle.

⁸ “Hear, O Joshua, high priest! You and your associates who sit before you! For they are signs of things to come!() () I will surely bring my servant the Branch.

⁹ Look at the stone() that I have placed before Joshua. On this one stone with seven facets() () I will engrave its inscription—oracle of the LORD of hosts—and I will take away the guilt of that land in one day.

¹⁰ On that day—oracle of the LORD of hosts—you will invite one another under your vines and fig trees.”()